# Crossref membership

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/kau/crossref/  
**Provider:** King Abdulaziz University — https://apis.io/providers/kau/  
**Documentation:** https://api.crossref.org/members/2709

Crossref membership is one of 7 APIs that [King Abdulaziz University](https://apis.io/providers/kau/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include DOI, Crossref, and Scholarly Publishing.

KAU holds two Crossref memberships in its own name. Member 2709, "King Abdulaziz University Scientific Publishing Centre", operates DOI prefix 10.4197 with 1,920 registered DOIs of which 358 are current — the university's own publishing programme. Member 53473, "King Abdulaziz University - DIGITAL COMMONS JOURNALS", covers the same journals as delivered through Elsevier's platform. KAU is also registered in the Crossref Funder Registry under Funder ID 501100004054. Both memberships verified live at HTTP 200 on 2026-09-01.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Registry** — https://api.crossref.org/members/2709
- **Registry** — https://api.crossref.org/members/53473
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kau/refs/heads/main/conformance/kau-conformance.yml

## Other King Abdulaziz University APIs (6)

- [KAU Open Data API](https://apis.io/apis/kau/open-data/)
- [KAU SAML 2.0 Identity Provider](https://apis.io/apis/kau/identity-federation/)
- [King Abdulaziz University Journals (Digital Commons tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/kau/journals-digital-commons/)
- [KAU Blackboard Learn (LMS tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/kau/blackboard-learn/)
- [King Abdulaziz Scientific Platform (Al Manhal tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/kau/scientific-platform/)
- [ROR registration](https://apis.io/apis/kau/ror/)

## Tags

DOI, Crossref, Scholarly Publishing

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/kau/crossref/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/kau/.